Rainbow Cake

So the trial was done, you can check it out here. I made a traditional 6 layer all the colour of the rainbow cake. I found it WAY too sweet. Anyways, so here is the modified version. Four layers, more girlie-ish colours.

So here is a quick run threw of the cake.

I started with a bunch of colour fondant.

Rolled it all out, and cut an obscene amount of flowers, varying sizes and colours.

I coloured the 4 layers, pink, purple, turquoise, and green. Use the gel colours, they will be much brighter.
Layered it with some yummy butter cream.

Cover the whole cake with butter cream.

Rolled on some white fondant, then started putting on the flowers. (In the order of the rainbow of course... Thank you cat in the hat for the song that is drilled in my brain!

Here is the birthday girl and her cake!

And my daughter waiting to tear into that cake!

And a couple of shots of inside.

 I used this *white cake* recipe, and a regular butter cream recipe.

Butter Cream:
1 cup butter
4 cups sifted icing sugar
big splash of vanilla
pinch of salt
3-4 tbsp heavy cream

Cream butter and sugar, splash of vanilla and pinch of salt. Add heavy cream slowly tablespoon by tablespoon until you get the consistency you're looking for.

Enjoy!

Rainbow cake trial run

One of our good friends daughter is turning 6 in a couple of weeks, and I volunteered to make the cake. I love to bake, but actually never take the time to actually decorate much. Plus I REALLY wanted to make this rainbow cake that I saw here. So I won't post the recipe you can check out the link for that. The cake is good, but a bit sweet. And I got lazy so I just used 2 cans of good old Betty Crocker. (that wasn't enough to cover the 6 layers, plus coat it) So that icing made the cake WAY too sweet.

So here we go... this is what my afternoon looked like.

 Made the batter and separated it in 6 bowls (or Tupperware as my dishwasher was full of my bowls.:( )Got my monkeys to help mix the colours. 

Dye them with Gel food colouring. It turns out really good. 

Bake them off in batches (since I only had 2 pans this took a little longer.)

Stack them all up layered with vanilla icing, cover and voila! Now this is with 2 cans of Betty Crocker, and clearly it wasn't enough. So keep that in mind. Plus it was so sweet, so if you are using the store stuff, I say maybe don't do 6 layers. 


OHHH you want to see what it looked like inside??? Ok so this is a rough draft, but here you go:

I'll post the final product some time in the next couple of weeks.